μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 19references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • Irish myth*Cross
  • BretonSébillot Incidents s. v. "arbres", "cadavre", "tombeau"
  • SwissJegerlehner Oberwallis 298 No. 7, 311 No 41
  • SpanishBoggs FFC XC 92 No. 780B*
  • GreekFox 198 (Adonis), 201 (Pyramus and Thisbe)
  • ItalianBasile Pentamerone I No. 6
  • Finnish-SwedishWessman 2 Nos. 12, 13
  • India*Thompson-Balys
  • IndonesianDixon 238, De Vries Volksverhalen I 300
  • ChineseEberhard FFC CXX 50f.
  • PapuaKer 131
  • N. Am. Indian (Zuñi)Cushing 183, (Kato): Goddard UCal V 219 n. 1
  • Africa (Kaffir)Theal 147, (Ekoi): Talbot 133.
  • general Type 510
  • general BP I 187
  • general *Cox 477 n. 7
  • general *Fb "sjæl" III 214b, "blod" IV 49a, "juletræ" II 57a
  • general Saintyves Contes de Perrault (Paris, 1923) 36ff., 141ff. English: *Child V 481. s. v. "grave", V 491 s. v. "plants"
  • general Amazon: Alexander Lat. Am. 294
Within the index

Filed under Reincarnation in object.

12 finer motifs beneath it
Twining branches grow from graves of lovers. (Cf. E419.6.)Flower from grave bears letters. These commemorate the buried personPlant from blood of slain personSpeaking and bleeding trees. Reincarnated personsTree from innocent man's bloodTree from sinner's graveFlower from graveGrass does not grow on murderer's grave. (Cf. H271.)Herbs grow from grave of healerDead ogress reincarnated as bramble-bush which prevents escape of fugitiveReincarnation as plantReincarnation in tree from grave
Filed beside it
Reincarnation as musical instrument. The Singing Bone. A musical instrument made from the bones of a murdered person, or from a tree growing from the grave, speaks and tells of the crimeReincarnation as dish. Bones made into dish. These speak. (Cf. E632.)Reincarnation as fountainReincarnation as water. (Cf. D283.)Reincarnation as ball (of gold and iron)Reincarnation as whirlwindReincarnation as stoneReincarnation as smokeReincarnation as rainbowReincarnation as mineralReincarnation as meteorReincarnation: man-object-man. In most of the versions of E632 (Reincarnation as musical instrument) the hero (heroine) finally comes back to life in his usual formReincarnation to object – miscellaneous
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Speaking tree. (Cf. D950, D1317.20.)Reincarnation as musical instrument. The Singing Bone. A musical instrument made from the bones of a murdered person, or from a tree growing from the grave, speaks and tells of the crime
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